Use Instant Search to find messages and text

Instant Search helps you find email fast. And Outlook immediately starts searching, even before you finish typing, and comes back with a list of all the email containing your search words, highlighted in yellow. Outlook searches all parts of an email message: the subject, message body, To and From lines; it even searches text inside attachments. Take this short course to learn more.

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Use Instant Search to find messages and text (3:49)Use instant search to find email messages containing text that you specify, or that meet criteria such as sender, recipient, or time sent.